A senior politician potentially in the firing line is Abay Tsehaye a TPLF co-founder who was Director-General of the Sugar Corporation when it handed out huge contracts to MetEC...
The arrest of businesswoman Salem Kebede is also significant as she is said to be a close confidante of Abay Tsehaye the influential TPLF veteran and former boss of the Sugar Corporation when it handed a prominent role to the generals-turned-industrialists at METEC...
Abaye Tsehaye a TPLF grandee publicly blamed OPDO incompetence for the crisis in Oromia...
Some senior party members including Seyoum Mesfin (TPLF) the Ambassador to China and Bereket Simon (ANDM) and Abay Tsehaye (TPLF) both prime ministerial advisors felt Metekakat was not implemented properly in 2013...
Veteran Information Minister Bereket Simon and the Director General of the Ethiopian Sugar Corporation Abay Tsehaye a founder of the TPLF recounted how the EPRDF is planning for several more decades in power until the political economy has been fully transformed and the ‘rent-seekers’ have been quashed...
The National Security Advisor Abay Tsehaye has taken over the Sugar Corporation...
Leading potential candidates include Seyoum Mesfin Abay Tsehaye Addisu Legesse Tewodros Adhanom and Arkebe Oqubay...
Abay Tsehaye: TPLF; Federal Affairs Minister since 2001; National Security Advisor; a long-standing TPLF member...
The other super-ministries will be run by SEPDF kingpin Kassu Illala (Infrastructure Development) Girma Birru (Trade and Industry) and Abay Tsehaye (Federal Affairs)...
The anti-Meles group included five members of the TPLF Politbureau who have helped to make the party what it is: Tewolde Woldemariam head of organisational affairs; Abaye Tsehaye former Secretary General; Gebru Asrat President of Tigray Regional State; Siye Abraha ex-Defence Minister; Alemseged Gebreamlak head of Political Affairs...
Meanwhile Alemseged Gebreamlak and Abaye Tsehaye have been dropped as prime-ministerial advisors...
Abaye Tsehaye wrote an open letter to party members defending the right to criticise policy and attacking the suspension of the dissidents by Meles but also describing their walk-out as 'a contravention of democratic principles'...